All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 28 2017 // A public television station has won a court battle over insurance policies that could pay for cleaning up contamination at the site of a shuttered Evansville dry-cleaning business.Judge Richard D’Amour ordered Red...
Dec 28 2017 // Authorities say a Southern California couple used a drone to deliver illegal drugs to their customers.Benjamin Baldassarre and Ashley Carroll, of Riverside, were charged with possessing controlled substances for sale and...
Dec 19 2017 // A South Dakota jury has awarded $1.2 million to a former state law enforcement agent who claimed discrimination and retaliation.The American News reports the jury sided Friday with past Division of Criminal Investigation...
Dec 18 2017 // A Mississippi city will pay more than $850,000 in back wages to more than 100 police officers following a federal investigation of payment practices. Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton’s administration released a statement...
Dec 14 2017 // London police are considering a variety of criminal charges related to the June fire at Grenfell Tower that killed 71 people.Police told an inquiry Monday [Dec. 11] that the possible charges include misconduct in public...
Dec 13 2017 // Authorities say one person is dead after a pressurized tank apparently exploded at a commercial building on Detroit’s east side. Detroit police Capt. Mark Thornton says two people were at the building Monday night...
Dec 5 2017 // Law enforcement authorities must play a strong role to ensure there are suitable deterrents in place for those flying recreational drones to prevent danger to passenger aircraft, the International Air Transport Association...
Dec 4 2017 // A North Carolina sheriff has changed his department’s policy on chases after five people were killed when a driver fleeing officers slammed into another car. The News & Record of Greensboro reports Guilford...
Nov 28 2017 // Guillermo Miranda Vazquez starts his day in a parking lot near the Home Depot where he easily finds work alongside other day laborers who are cleaning up Houston after Hurricane Harvey.Some days, he clears rotted drywall...
Nov 20 2017 // A couple who say they were handcuffed for hours in a police patrol car after their hibiscus plants were confused for marijuana are suing the police and an insurance company.Edward and Audrey Cramer say in a lawsuit filed...
Nov 17 2017 // Police in Maine say a man has been injured and another man arrested after a car involved in a collision barreled into a diner.According to police, three vehicles were involved in a collision in Sanford around 3:36 p.m....
Oct 27 2017 // The costs of emergency police, fire and other services related to the Las Vegas shooting massacre were projected Wednesday at about $4 million and climbing.The disclosure came amid pledges by the federal government to...
Oct 26 2017 // Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston has established a Disaster Fraud Task Force in the Eastern District of Texas comprised of local, state, and federal agencies to combat hurricane Harvey related disaster fraud...
Oct 23 2017 // Police in Virginia are investigating after an explosive device was detonated in Williamsburg.News outlets report the device was found Thursday night in a parking lot. Firefighters and police were called to the scene near...
Oct 18 2017 // Police records show there has been an unprecedented spike in gun thefts in Kansas City, Missouri.The number of annual firearms thefts sharply increased between 2015 and 2016, according to police data obtained by the Kansas...
Oct 18 2017 // Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term “accident.” It implies too much chance and too little culpability.A “crash” killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another...
Oct 12 2017 // A man arrested and acquitted of a felony for creating a fake Facebook page that parodied a suburban Cleveland, Ohio, police department is suing the city, saying it violated his right to free speech.Anthony Novak filed suit...
Oct 11 2017 // A panel of industry and law enforcement officials couldn’t agree on how civilian drones should be tracked by authorities, adding uncertainty to the push for expanded commercial uses.The advisory committee,...
Oct 5 2017 // A Michigan county has agreed to pay $1.07 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who was killed and dismembered after a Detroit-area police officer exposed her as an informant in a drug bust.Details...
Oct 5 2017 // Police on North Carolina’s Outer Banks say at least 14 guns have been stolen as the result of break-ins during the last two months. The Kill Devil Hills Police Department posted to its Facebook page that there have...